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Volume 1 The Glory of Germany Chapter 240 The Downhill Road

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    w Among the three major services of land, sea and air, relatively speaking, the German army has the smallest gap in the army.

    Although during the entire Cold War, China maintained an army that was the largest in the world in addition to local defense and global interests, this does not mean that the Chinese army has advantages in all aspects, or even that the Chinese army is definitely better than the German army.  The Second Imperial Army was powerful.

    In fact, during the Cold War, China¡¯s ground forces deployed in the areas surrounding the Second German Reich had no advantage.

    Mainly related to two reasons, one is to avoid the outbreak of direct conflict, and the other is the basic strategy of containing the Second German Empire.

    After the Second German Reich developed nuclear weapons, the Chinese authorities immediately realized that any level of direct conflict with the Second German Reich would evolve into World War III, and it would be difficult for China to become the winner of a full-scale nuclear war. Therefore,  Direct conflict with the Second German Reich must be avoided as much as possible.

    ??Obviously, this directly determined the basic strategy for containing the Second German Empire.

    To put it simply, the basic strategy to contain the Second German Reich was the non-contact encirclement strategy.

    According to this strategy, after the end of the war, China established an alliance with Britain at the expense of restoring Britain's normal national status.  At the same time, China has also invested a lot of resources in Turkey and established an alliance with Turkey on the basis of not interfering in Turkey's domestic issues.  In addition, the dismemberment of Russia and the establishment of several small states east of the Ural Mountains were also related to the containment of the Second German Empire.  Control the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, and support Israel in the Middle East.  All to contain the Second German Reich.

    The key point is that the encirclement established by China is not adjacent to the mainland of the Second German Empire.

    To put it simply, China established an encirclement on the periphery of the Second German Empire to avoid direct conflict with the Second German Empire to the greatest extent.

    ??Obviously, in this encirclement strategy, the key role is definitely not played by the army.

    In fact, the entire Cold War period.  The main forces in the strategic encirclement of Germany were the navy and the air force, especially the navy. The army only played a minor role.  In the early seventies.  The number of Chinese army troops deployed within a thousand kilometers of the Second German Empire was less than one million, which dropped to 700,000 by the early 1980s, and to 500,000 by the early 1990s.  Before the end of the Cold War, there were less than 400,000.

    " Compared to the total strength of the Chinese ** team, this ratio is not high at all.

    If compared with the total strength of the German army, it pales in comparison.

    You know, in the early 1970s, the total strength of the Imperial Army was 3.5 million, in the early 1980s it was 4 million, in the early 1990s it was 3 million, and before the end of the Cold War it was 3.2 million.

    ??Obviously, China¡¯s ground troops deployed in the areas surrounding the Second German Empire simply could not stop the Imperial Army.

    In other words, the Army was not the main force in blocking and surrounding the Second German Reich.

    ??In fact.  During the Cold War, the Army was not the main force of the Chinese Army. Especially after losing to the Air Force in the battle for the strategic ballistic missile force, the Army's status in China's military forces was drastically reduced, and it was even reduced to that of the Army.  The teams are on an equal footing.

    certainly.  This is also related to China's basic security environment.

    That is, after the end of the war, China defeated all enemy and potential enemy countries in the surrounding areas, established a safety zone with a depth of more than a thousand kilometers on the mainland by dismembering Russia, and as a victorious country, resolved all issues related to  For domestic security border issues, all potential threats have been eliminated by relying on powerful strategic strike forces.  It has obtained the most ideal surrounding environment since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

    To put it simply, after the war, China no longer faced threats from the land direction.

    ??Obviously, for the purpose of homeland security, China does not need to maintain a large-scale army, or even build an army with strong combat effectiveness.

    In a sense, the Chinese Army has been reduced to a strategic reserve.

    This is that even if a full-scale war breaks out, with the strategic defense space of thousands of kilometers beyond the national border, China will be able to gain enough time to prepare for war, and will have enough confidence to form an army when the enemy attacks the national border.  A powerful ground force.

    The result is that in peacetime, China has no reason to maintain a large army.

    Of course, in terms of external expansion, the army also plays a secondary role.

    This is that in maintaining the post-war international order, or in consolidating the sphere of influence gained during the war, the navy played the main role, followed by the air force.

    UpdateThe important thing is that even if ground troops are needed, Marines are available.

    It can be said that the Marine Corps became the only branch of service after the war, posing the most serious threat and challenge to the existence of the Army.

    You must know that in China's military structure, the primary responsibility of the Army is to defend the homeland, and the Marine Corps is the vanguard of external expansion.

    Obviously, the improvement of the Marine Corps has caused the Army to lose the opportunity to become the main force for external expansion.

    It can be said that the Army has been a victim in all the post-war military reforms, and the Army's force size and equipment level have also been declining year by year.

    By the end of the Cold War, the Army had lost its fame and fortune among the three major services, and its status was only above the Marine Corps.

    Of course, in addition to military needs, political needs are also the main reason for suppressing the army.

    ?In a sense, political reasons play the biggest role.

    The main thing is that before the end of the war, Feng Chengqian initiated military reforms and hoped to weaken the political influence of the military through reforms and lay the foundation for the establishment of a democratic political system.  In the reforms implemented by Feng Chengqian, resistance from the army almost ruined the reform efforts.

    Don¡¯t forget, Feng Chengqian almost launched a military coup in order to remove Liu Berne from power.

    What happened in 1950 convinced Feng Chengqian that if the army was too powerful, China's democratic political process would be aborted.

    The result is that before Feng Chengqian retired, military reforms focused on suppressing the army.

    While drastically reducing the strength of the Army, Feng Chengqian also pushed through the National Assembly to pass several bills related to restrictions on the Army or the military.  The most important bill came into effect in 1951. That is, in peacetime, regular troops are not allowed to be stationed in cities and urban periphery areas, and are not allowed to participate in or intervene in security operations to maintain social order. The mobilization of regular troops requires approval from the National Assembly.  Authorizes the president to only mobilize regular troops to perform tasks abroad during peacetime, but not to mobilize regular troops to perform tasks domestically.

    The core of this bill is to prevent the president from mobilizing the military to deal with domestic political forces.

    Of course, there was an additional amendment to the bill later, which established an armed police force with the nature of a local armed force based on the previous reserve army, and empowered the armed police force to maintain domestic order in peacetime and combat serious domestic crimes.  criminal liability.  The key point is that the armed police force only obeys the central command and deployment during wartime, and accepts the leadership of local government during peacetime.

    This series of reforms has greatly weakened the influence of the Army and lowered its status.

    The main purpose is to prevent careerists in the army from usurping political power, preventing military dictatorships from occurring, and preventing military coups.

    It was after completing this series of reforms that Feng Chengqian officially announced his retirement.

    However, the suppression of the Army did not end there.

    After Feng Chengqian retired, Gu Zhutong led China¡¯s military forces for nearly ten years as chief of naval staff and chairman of the chiefs of staff conference.  In the past ten years, Gu Zhutong adhered to Feng Chengqian's military reform policy. While actively building the Chinese Army into a military force for external expansion, he spared no effort to compress the army's living space. The most direct way was to  Improve the status of the Marine Corps.

    It was during Gu Zhutong's tenure as Chief of Naval Staff that the status of the Marine Corps as the first branch of the Navy was consolidated.

    More importantly, it was during these few years that the Marine Corps became the vanguard of China's external expansion and the most important ground force.

    Don¡¯t forget, when the war in Guatemala broke out, the Marine Corps was the first ground force to intervene.

    In fact, in almost every foreign conflict at that time, the Marine Corps was ahead of the Army, and in many cases only the Marine Corps was responsible for ground combat tasks.

    ??Obviously, this is definitely not a good thing for the Chinese Army.

    By the end of the Cold War, the total strength of the Chinese Army had dropped to 800,000, while the total strength of the Marine Corps had increased to 400,000.  In other words, the size of the Marine Corps is half that of the Army.  You know, at the end of the war, the Marine Corps' strength was only one-seventh of the Army's.

    The comparison of force size determines the status of the army.

    The reduced status, in turn, had an extremely serious impact on the development of the army.  This means that the Army has lost its dominance in many equipment projects.

    The resulting impact is that the Chinese Army was no longer the dominant ground military force during the Cold War.

    At least in many major equipment projects, the Army does not have much say, and equipment projects led by the Army receive less attentionTo a very low extent.

    This situation lasted until the mid-1970s, when there was a more obvious change.

    The key is the third Middle East war.

    The reason is that in this war in which Israel challenged the entire Arab world, the Israeli Army, which relied on weapons and equipment provided by China, exposed many problems during the war, and most of them were related to equipment performance, thus reflecting the existence of the Chinese Army.  question.

    More importantly, this war made the Chinese authorities realize that the army is of extremely high value in local wars.

    As the world¡¯s number one military power, China must have a strong army, at least one with advanced weapons and equipment.  To be continued.  If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.  m

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